Registration of abstracts

Abstract registration and paper submission site: http://www.dexa.org:9005/REG-paper/index.html. Please read our Paper submission details.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Holonic and multi-agent systems provide a novel paradigm for managing, modelling and supporting complex systems. This concept has proved to be successful in number of industrial domains such as manufacturing, resource allocation and production planning, air traffic.

The conference aims to bring together researchers active in the area of holonic and multi-agent systems together with key engineers and industrial decision makers to share their views and experience in design, development and applying holonic and multi-agent systems for industrial problems.

The conference will be prepared in cooperation with the EU Network of Excellence I*PROMS and AgentLink - European Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing..

Due to increasing interest from research and industry, HoloMAS have been converted to a conference in 2003 (held in Prague) after a successful series of HoloMAS workshops (London 2000, Munich 2001, Aux en Provance 2002).

Unlike many other events this conference is neither purely theoretical or purely industrial meeting. We encourage submissions of papers that present an industrial exploitation of fundamental research concepts, or presentation of algorithms and techniques with clearly specified potentials of an early industry adoption. The papers will be rigorously reviewed and assessed according to the research quality, maturity of the presented research results and the relevance to the conference.

All accepted conference papers will be published in the conference proceedings in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series by Springer Verlag.

SUGGESTED TOPICS (but not limited to)

• Theoretical backgrounds behind holonic/agent concepts
• Industrial applications of holonic and multi-agent systems
• Specification of holonic and agent-based architectures and design methodologies
• Differences and similarities between the concept of holons and agents
• Communication principles and standards
• Virtual organisations & holonic factories - reconfigurable factories
• Agent-based system integration
• Modeling and simulation tools
• Reconfiguration tasks, coalition formation, knowledge ontologies
• Novel application areas (health-care, environmental protection, government)
• Visions and future trends of holonic and multi-agent systems
• Standardization issues, security issues, industrial needs
• Obstacles and barriers to industrial applicability

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions or critiques of practical experience. Papers (in English) should not exceed 10 pages in Springer Verlag format. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of abstracts:	March 6, 2005	Extended
Submission of full papers:	March 13, 2005	Extended
Acceptance Notice:	April 26, 2005	Extended
Camera-ready Copies:	May 15, 2005

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